EE 478 Lecture 1 Syllabus and Projects

7-3-13 Lecturer: Nathaniel McVicar Laboratory Assistants: Pham Xuan Trung and Nguyen The Nghia Source Material: James K. Peckol

Welcome to EE 478
Lecturer: Nathaniel McVicar Lab Assistant: Pham Xuan Trung Lab Assistant: Nguyen The Nghia Course goals: The objective of this capstone design course is to provide students with theoretical background and practical experience in advanced digital system design techniques as well as digital circuit construction, testing and debugging

EE 478 Topics
Memories and Memory Systems
Types of memory Memory architectures Memory hierarchy

System Specification, Modeling, and Design

Design approaches Analyzing the system and performance

Debugging, Troubleshooting, Boundary Conditions

Accuracy and bias Measuring values Errors and debugging

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Basic Passive Component
Passive components review Circuits review

Clock Generation and Timing

Timing buses and logic paths Clock generation and distribution Metastability

High Speed Digital Signals

High speed digital design Transmission lines

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Signals, Noise and Power Distribution
Nosie and types of noise Power distribution wiring Crosstalk and signal loops

Modeling I/O and Networking

Quick review Interrupts and polling Network layers and types

Array Logic
PLDs and FPGAs

EE 478 Topics Discussion

Which of these topics do you feel you already know very well? We may need to cut topics to fit all the presentations in, so we shouldnt waste time on topics that would only be review for you Aside from the goals and University requirements, what do you want to get out of this course?

Grading
Homework: Research topic:
Presentation Report

5% 20 %
10 % 10 %

Midterm:
Report: Capstone demo:

25 % total
15 % 10 %

Final:
Presentation: Report: Capstone demo:

50 % total
10 % 20 % 20 %

Due Dates
Midterm capstone demo: week of 25 March Midterm capstone report: 31 March Homework: 27 March Final capstone presentation: week of 25 March Final capstone demo: week of 8 April Final capstone report: 14 April Research topic presentation: week of 18 March Research topic report: 24 March

The Capstone Project

A major part of this course is focused on the capstone design project for your program This is a project of your own choosing, conducted in groups of three students The midterm report and demo are a way to demonstrate your progress and the report should also include all of your design figures and charts The final report will be longer, perhaps 10 to 30 pages, including all figures and references

UW EE 478 Projects
UW Projects for many years of EE 478 can be found at this link http://www.ee.washington.edu/class/478/peckol/fi nal_projects/index.htm Although these are examples you can base your project off of, your group should come up with an original idea that interests you The LAs and I will approve all capstone projects by next week, so please start thinking about yours

The Research Topic

A research report and presentation on a topic of current interested in our field of your choice Done in the same group of three as your capstone The presentation will be about 10 minutes long with a very short time for questions at the end The report will be fairly sort, under 10 pages including figures and references

Research Topic Ideas

Research topic ideas from UW are listed here http://www.ee.washington.edu/class/478/peckol/a ssignments/topics.html Again, just like with the capstone project, this will go much better if your group is interested in the topic Pick something that sounds fun to you, even if its not on the list I must approve all topics by next week